Symposium

This annual Indiana Law Review Symposium will consider the balance of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, discussing the powers and limits of each branch and the implications for our system when one branch infringes on the other.

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Indiana Law Review Symposium Agenda

FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3, 2025

Keynote Speaker

Andrea Scoseria Katz, J.D., Ph.D, is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Professor Katz teaches and writes about constitutional law, with a focus on presidential power. Her work draws from constitutional law, legal history, political theory and comparative politics to explore questions of separation-of-powers theory, constitutionalism, and the development of the American president and the modern administrative state, especially during the Progressive Era (1890-1920).

Katz's work has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, among others. Professor Katz has also published work on courts, constitutional amendments, and presidential power in Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of São Paulo, the University of Tokyo, and was a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU Law School before joining the Washington University faculty in Fall 2020.

Professor Katz received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, Professor Katz clerked at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France for Judge András Sajó, and in the District of Massachusetts for Judge Michael A. Ponsor.

Panel Members

Jeffrey Kahn, J.D., Ph.D, is a professor of law and Director of the Law & Government Program at American University Washington College of Law. His work focuses on constitutional law, national security law, Russian law, and human rights. He has been a visiting professor or research visitor at McGill University, Washington & Lee University, the University of Oslo (as a Fulbright Research Scholar) and Oxford University. His work on U.S. constitutional law and comparative human rights has been published, among other places, in the UCLA Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, and the peer-reviewed American Journal of Comparative Law, European Journal of International Law, and the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.

He is the author of Mrs. Shipley’s Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists (University of Michigan Press, 2013) and co-author of National Security Law and the Constitution (Aspen, 3rd ed., 2025). He testified as an expert witness for the successful plaintiff in Ibrahim v. DHS (N.D. Cal., Dec. 4, 2013), to date the only No-Fly List case to be decided at the trial stage. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale, his doctorate from Oxford, and law degree from the University of Michigan. He clerked for the Honorable Thomas P. Griesa of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He served as a trial attorney in the Justice Department (Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch) from October 2003 until April 2006.

Gerard Magliocca, J.D., is a Distinguished Professor and the Lawrence A. Jegen III Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the author of five books on constitutional law. His latest book, The Actual Art of Governing is about Justice Robert Jackson’s landmark concurring opinion in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer. His biography of Justice Bushrod Washington won the Erwin N. Griswold Prize from the Supreme Court Historical Society.

Professor Magliocca received his undergraduate degree from Stanford and his law degree from Yale. He joined the faculty in 2001 after two years as an attorney and one year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2008, Professor Magliocca held the Fulbright-Dow Distinguished Research Chair of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands. He was a Fellow at the Washington Library at Mount Vernon from 2019-2021.

A. Christopher Bryant, J.D. is the Rufus King Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Professor Bryant’s numerous published articles and essays reach a wide range of issues of contemporary constitutional importance, including the separation of powers, judicial review, and the roles of the various branches of the national government in constitutional interpretation. He is a recognized expert on the scope and exercise of national legislative power and the respect that Congressional action is owed from the federal judiciary, with leading articles on the subject published in the Cornell Law Review, George Washington Law Review, BYU Law Review, Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, and William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.

Professor Bryant’s research in federalism and unenumerated rights include a co-authored book, “Powers Reserved for the People and the States”: A History of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments (Greenwood Press 2006), as well as articles in the Georgia Law Review and the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, to name only a few. Before beginning his academic career, Professor Bryant served as Assistant Senate Legal Counsel in the U.S. Senate Office of Legal Counsel and as an associate at Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C. After earning his JD, Professor Bryant clerked for the Hon. James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Parking

Visitor parking is available in fully automated parking garages a few blocks from Inlow Hall:
Gateway Garage @525 Blackford St
(Entrance is located at the corner of California & North Street).

Sports Complex Garage @875 W New York St
(Connected to the IU Natatorium. Enter Sports Garage Visitor Section).

Riverwalk Garage @245 University Blvd
(Garage entrance faces NIFS & is just south of the IU Natatorium).

Special Accommodations:

Individuals who need special assistance should call (317) 274-0846 no later than one week prior to the event. Special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs.